With nearly a quarter of the American population living in a food desert, access to fresh and healthy produce is crucial in the battle to reduce diabetes, heart disease, hypertension and other food-related illnesses in our families.
From the crib!!!
Roots & Vine Produce and Café, spearheaded by Ena Jones, a single mother of 3, born and raised in Chicago, has set its Grand Opening for this fall 2018 on Chicago’s South Side in the Morgan Park Community. The plan is to create a Wi-Fi friendly café with a healthy menu, coffee, smoothies, and juices as well as tempting pastries.
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The Most Revolutionary Act 
I wish her the very best.
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Very inspiring indeed, marblenecltr.
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Such as this is sorely needed ALL over this country. There are food deserts everywhere. I would not be driving if not for the fact that there are food deserts where I live. You cannot take the bus and expect to get your groceries home without them spoiling first. I’ve actually sat waiting for a bus and it was so hot, the lettuce had wilted before I got home especially seeing as how the bus on that particular route is always late, then I have to ride to a transfer station, wait for another late bus and then climb on board and stop every few blocks.
I need to purchase more vehicles and enlist more volunteers to keep up with the demand for car rides to the grocery store alone, never mention all the other places people need to go, like appointments and to pick children up from daycare, etc. I don’t drive because I want to, I drive because I have no choice and that is sad.
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This kind of story should be on the 6 o’clock news, Shelby. I’m aware of similar projects elsewhere, but they rarely get reported, even on social media.
I’m delighted to hear you got your own ride sharing service going, Shelby, and that it’s getting a good response. I hope you will do a blog post about it at some point.
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Sorry to disappoint you Dr. Bramhall, but you know my blog is highly incendiary and I am not about to put it out there the fact that I am purchasing vehicles, that need to be inspected, and are using said vehicles in the performance of helping others who are usually Black in seeing to it that they get what they need. The last thing I need is to draw attention to myself in that way. My two vehicles just passed state inspection and so I am good to go, but I won’t be if I go public and get hassled. I’m not THAT crazy. But thank you for the suggestion. I’m Black, remember and so I’ve got to be extra careful about EVERYTHING! I wish it were not so, but that’s the way it is. I just read that yet another Black man had the police called on him by a white woman who refused to believe that he lived in an upscale condo building.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/newsfeature/woman-fired-after-video-shows-her-stopping-black-man-from-entering-his-apartment-building/ar-BBOqMBF?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=AARDHP
See what we are up against?
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